About the book: 1985 / About the life of Soviet society, its pros and cons, traditions and vices. Problems of gender in a totalitarian society, sex as a social phenomenon lying on the border between the desires of the individual and the interests of the state. “...I approach the topic “Sex and Socialism” not as a physician (although I once practiced medicine) and not as a writer of everyday life. As the author of books about people of Soviet science, I explore sex as a social phenomenon lying on the border between the desires of the individual and the interests of the state. I am trying to understand how the eternal relationship between a man and a woman is deformed under the influence of Soviet laws, ideology, Soviet traditions and the judicial camp system; I'm trying to trace what aberrations such elements as inadequate housing construction, mass arrests, imperfect contraceptives and the conscription of women into the army bring into the love of two. In other words, we are talking about a sociological book. At the same time, this is a very personal book, full of the most intimate details, since it was written with me by a large group of witnesses, recent emigrants from the Soviet Union...” (From the author’s preface)